16 Feb y 1813

Church II Topics Ch 6

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Thus it may be seen

that & how, a proposition

more apparently false

may obtain firmer credence than

one less apparently so.

By the same considerations it has been or may be rendered

apparent, that and how it is that — a proposition

the falsity of which [+]

would, to any eye

by which it should be

permitted to be viewed

to the purpose of forming

in relation to it a

persuasion of the indigenous

kind, to

(is) in a greater degree manifest,

shall be made to obtain a stronger persuasion in affirmance of its verity)

than a proposition the falsity of which would, as above

be in a lesser degree manifest.

This case is where

the instruments of

the forcible

process consists in

eventual rewards

& punishment.

This is the case The case here in question is that

in which, with or without the intervention and assistance of a body

of intellectual authority produced by means of it

produced by its operation on others, the instrument by

which an operation a process of the forcibly deceptive kind

is performed carried in, consists of a boundless mass of evil good

considered regarded as operatives in the character of an

eventual punishment, in conjunction with a boundless

mass of good operating in the character of

an eventual reward.

Thus merit is

attached to the

reward producing

belief - demerit

& guilt to the contrary.

This being in some

measure the

of the words.

Such is the case where, in the of him the being

free at whose hands the punishment or the reward eventual punishment or reward

is expected the idea of merit is considered

as attached to the act of embracing the persuasion

in question, or that of demerit — in other words

guilt to the act of embracing the opposite persuasion one:

For this in so far as it has any is the import attached

respectively to those words: merit, a probable source

of reward: demerit, a probable source of punishment.